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Which of the following pagan intellectuals did not subject Christians and Christianity to criticism?
Athenagoras of Athens
Julian the Apostate
Celsus
Lucian of Samosata
Porphyry
Tertullian
Fronto of Cirta
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Athenagoras of Athens and Tertullian.
Both were Christian apologists who defended Christianity (Athenagoras wrote a famous "Plea for the Christians"; Tertullian was an early Latin Church Father), whereas Julian the Apostate, Celsus, Lucian, Porphyry (and, as a pagan rhetorician, Fronto) are known for pagan critiques or satiric treatment of Christianity.
Both were Christian apologists who defended Christianity (Athenagoras wrote a famous "Plea for the Christians"; Tertullian was an early Latin Church Father), whereas Julian the Apostate, Celsus, Lucian, Porphyry (and, as a pagan rhetorician, Fronto) are known for pagan critiques or satiric treatment of Christianity.
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